Ellis Cunliffe Lister-Kay (12 May 1774 – 24 November 1853) was an English

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politician who sat in the

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from 1832 to 1841.

Life

He was born as Ellis Cunliffe, the son of John Cunliffe of the ancient, wealthy mill-owning Cunliffe family of

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. In 1809 his name was legally changed to Ellis Cunliffe-Lister under the will of his first wife's uncle, Samuel Lister.the Peerage.com
/ref> He built and leased four mills in Bradford, including Red Beck Mill at Shipley in 1817, and served as a J.P. At the 1832 general election Lister was elected

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for

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. He held the seat until 1841. By 1837 Lister had erected Manningham Mill at

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for his two sons,The 1904 Bradford Art & Industrial Exhibition
/ref> John and

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., and he took up residence there himself. In 1840 he and his fellow Bradford M.P.

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attended the

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in London.BFASS Convention 1840
List of delegates, Retrieved 27 August 2015 In 1842 he changed his name again, this time to the triple-barrelled Ellis Cunliffe-Lister-Kay, under the will of his second wife's father, William Kay. Lister married Ruth Myers Lister on 1 April 1795. In 1809, he married Mary Kay, daughter of William Kay, as his second wife. In 1844, he took Eliza Mellifont Talbot, daughter of Richard Talbot, as his third wife.

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* 1774 births 1853 deaths UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politicians from Bradford {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub